Erdos numbers

[LaurV]

Now, is anyone having a low Erdos number via Hank Aaron connection ?

[fivemack]

Four, but bizarrely: me -> Gert Vriend -> Jan Smeitink -> Alan Taylor -> Erdos

To my amazement, my PhD supervisor is also Erdos number 4, though much more impressively:

John Cremona -> Ken Ribet -> Hendrik Lenstra -> Carl Pomerance -> Erdos

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by rajula

I have Erdős number 3 via multiple routes.
(I am used to checking the Erdős number of people from MathSciNet. Also, I don't have Silverlight (nor Moonlight) installed on this computer.)

ps. I now checked the MS-website with my desktop computer and there are just enormous gaps in the data (when compared to MathSciNet; after further looking into that MS-thingy it seems that some authors have multiple personalities... which cuts the coauthor chains). So, indeed it only gives some upper-bound (and it might use academic papers outside math, which are not considered when one calculates the Erdős number, so it only gives an upper-bound on the collaboration distance - not Erdős number.)

so linguist that have them made math paper's ?

Originally Posted by wikipedia

According to Alex Lopez-Ortiz, all the Fields and Nevanlinna prize winners during the three cycles in 1986 to 1994 have Erdős numbers of at most 9. Similarly, many linguists have finite Erdős numbers, many due to chains of collaboration with such notable scholars as Noam Chomsky (Erdős number 4),[14] William Labov (3),[15] Mark Liberman (3),[16] Geoffrey Pullum (3),[17] or Ivan Sag (4).[18]

[rajula]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

so linguist that have them made math paper's ?

(I find the distance calculated by using all peer-reviewed scientific articles a good one because it includes so many people, but) some people might get confused with all the different definitions. I took as a definition just the first lines from Wikipedia:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The Erdős number (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɛrdøːʃ]) describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.

Similarly, one could relax the definition of Bacon number to include acting in non-Hollywood movies, which would give me Erdős-Bacon number 7 (OK, to obtain that one should actually include amateur/indie movies...).

[Uncwilly]

Here is something fun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number

I guess that if I want to earn an Edrős number, I should work up my work related idea and have one of you math wonks collaborate on it.

I can establish a pseudo Bacon number of 3 various ways. I have met and dealt with a handful of celebs than have Bacon numbers of 2.

[Xyzzy]

If you want to put your Erdős number in your profile just click here:

http://www.mersenneforum.org/profile.php?do=editprofile

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

[Raman]

Originally Posted by Batalov

Get on a paper or a few, as you aptly put it.

I doubt, I guess in order to publish with a math paper with sufficiently enough
support and co-ordination factor, to meet the expected standards for the journals;
then I perhaps have to move into the foreign countries, abroad (Europe / USA ?)

At this place itself, the targetted subjects / courses I would rather like to
learn are not being offered. Or otherwise I was being forced to take redundant /
dirty courses.

I'm not sure for the extent to which I can choose, select my own topic / field
to publish my own papers; but as a novice, I will either land ending in discovering
things, stuff being already known / publishing it with something relatively very easy
or much obvious / trivial enough material, otherwise.

I've got, obtained a Master's degree from the IIT Madras, institute. But it would
be useful to know, for the American Universities, than when compared to the Indian
colleges; are the course work being furthermore stringent or otherwise lenient? Is
the research work at the American Universities are being furthermore enjoyable?

Are the American Universities being furthermore stringent for the deadlines for the
coursework? Are we being given the right to elect our own courses? Is each / every
course work is being furthermore hectic enough - i.e. a lot of work assignments for
are being dumped together simultaneously enough for the course works? Or otherwise
it is being comparatively enjoyable enough than when compared to the Indian colleges,
institutes, being appropriately enough? How many course work are we supposed to be,
being taking per semester for the course work scheduling processes?

Do you think if I submit an arbitrary paper of my own thought process, into a journal,
then (electronically modes), then do you think it will be rather accepted very much?

If in case, whenever I can find some time, then I will be able to, being draft a
sample paper, myself, you decide it if whether it is being worthy enough for a publication
process, to be being ably strangely enough, albeit strangely enough, processes guy!

Originally Posted by Dubslow

apparently xilman and bdodson have 2 paths to Erdös

It is being the O symbol with the double acute accent marks
NOT being the O symbol with the umlaut / diaeresis accent marks

By the same way, how old are you being? What's your own age being, right now itself?
By using the some way, all at once
By making use for the

Originally Posted by Raman

Erdős number
fivemack: 4

Do you think I ought to have a poll for getting with the people's, their own candidates
for the Erdős numbers, all at once?

For the people, in order to update with their own Erdős numbers, people can please go
on towards for to the page via
Options → User Control Panel → Your Profile → Edit Your Details → Additional Information → Erdős number

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

If you want to put your Erdős number in your profile just click here:
http://www.mersenneforum.org/profile.php?do=editprofile
Scroll to the bottom of the page.

When did you start, do beginning to have it, been?
Whom gave you the idea, with being?

My own is being perhaps the most appropriate thing, stuff, being!
myself: N/A → Not Applicable
retina: 666 ??
ewmayer: √5 ??

Into the initial posting for this thread, I had been updating with the names for the six
people who had been updated with their own Erdős numbers, being embedded into, whatever
from within their own profiles, itself, to be ably, being, enough

Right now itself, we will have been got to have seven people,
including with for the person rajula: 3
other than the six original updated people whenever, xilman: 2, ewmayer: √5, Batalov: 3, retina: 666, Xyzzy: ∞, myself: N/A
all at once
as usually, to be ably, being casually enough Right now itself guy!

In order to have been getting admission into this forum, and then for to the people
ought to have a finite / valid Erdős number,
no rule, nothing, like, such as, it, this thing, stuff, at all, jolly, thus, so thereby
up down, and then for to the people, itself, to be ably, being, enough

[axn]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

If you want to put your Erdős number in your profile just click here:

http://www.mersenneforum.org/profile.php?do=editprofile

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Thanks Mike!

[Xyzzy]

myself: N/A → Not Applicable

Everybody has an Erdős number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...ber#Definition

A person with no such coauthorship chain connecting to Erdős has an Erdős number of infinity (or an undefined one).

[Raman]

Originally Posted by Raman

If in case, whenever I can find some time, then I will be able to, being draft a
sample paper, myself, you decide it if whether it is being worthy enough for a publication
process, to be being ably strangely enough, albeit strangely enough, processes guy!

Whenever I can find sparing rather some time period, during the something my own future time periods,
whenever I am rather have been relatively rather very much freer, than whenever is being
right now enough itself, and then I will rather certainly being draft / submit a sample /
model / mock paper, myself, hereby, guy!

Originally Posted by axn

Thanks Mike!

Please go on towards by being making use for the word N/A, not being for the word ∞ at all!
okay alright then
and then, thus, so thereby
up down, and then for the

Originally Posted by Raman

I had been updating with the names for the six
people who had been updated with their own Erdős numbers

IX = 9; SIX = 6; MIX = 1009; DIX = 509; CIX = 109; LIX = 59; XIX = 19; NIX = !?.

retina - DCLXVI

I - Wagstaff S.S. Jr, Montgomery P
II - xilman, bdodson, R. D. Silverman, Lenstra AK, Lenstra H, akruppa, Jeff Gilchrist
III - ewmayer, Batalov, jasonp, rajula
IV - fivemack, bsquared
V - pinhodecarlos, frmky
VI - LaurV
Not being defined at all! - Xyzzy, axn, Uncwilly, Dubslow, myself.

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

myself: N/A → Not Applicable
Everybody has an Erdős number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...ber#Definition
A person with no such coauthorship chain connecting to Erdős has an Erdős number of infinity (or an undefined one).

Undefined = Not Available at all!
guy somehow

Mathematics = Paul Erdős
Computer Science = whom fellow
for the Computer Applications Departments
for the Computer Implementations boxes things
for the Computer Programming dumps stuffs
for the Computer Coding Colours Departments
at all!
guy somehow

By the same way, Why do we end the plural words with for the letter "s", not by
making use for the other letter / character / alphabet at all!

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Raman

It is being the O symbol with the double acute accent marks
NOT being the O symbol with the umlaut / diaeresis accent marks

Ah, my bad.

Originally Posted by Raman

By the same way, how old are you being? What's your own age being, right now itself?

I'm (recently) 18 years őld.